Crisis-sensitive educational planning in Kenya

IIEP-UNESCO carried out a scoping mission to Kenya from 24-28 September as part of its three-year programme with the European Commission’s Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI). The mission will inform IIEP’s country-level activities in Kenya for the next two years, in collaboration with UNHCR, the Global Education Cluster (GEC), and the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa in Nairobi.

As part of the mission, IIEP met with key stakeholders related to crisis-sensitive educational planning, including the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the country’s Education in Emergencies (EiE) and Urban Refugee Education working groups. The mission also included field visits to Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps, where IIEP met with sub-country education officers, representatives from the Refugee Affairs Secretariat (RAS), and a range of education partners.

The mission aimed to identify key topics and areas of technical expertise related to crisis-sensitive planning for IIEP’s technical cooperation work in Kenya. It also aimed to identify relevant stakeholders and capacity development needs that could be addressed through IIEP technical support.

During the mission, IIEP met with members of the MoE’s country team that participated in the Institute’s recent distance course ‘Educational planning for crisis risk reduction and forced displacement’, held from 2 May to 3 July 2018. All participants from the Kenyan country team were awarded [TS1] with certificates of successful completion for their work on the course.